AgileBill

AgileBill( agilebill.com ) is a product from Agileco. I have selected this application especially due to its scope of use and the features it has got. I don’t think it is much popular yet but definitely has the potential to make it big in the ever growing online market. Let us review it as below.

1. User Interface

The user interface is similar to modernbill although not as refined as modernbill. The admin interface has an expanding menu with quick and well planned navigation. You do not realize the amount of options you are actually controlling due to the design used even though things look very simple to your eyes.

2. System or Control Panel Compatibility

It currently supports Linux only I guess based on its requirements. The script supports amazing amount of control panels. Cpanel, Helm, Ensim, Directadmin, easyAdmin, Webmin etc are all supported. These features definitely make it an application worth having a look at. The compatibility features surely beat even modernbill at first look.

3. Payment Gateways support

It would be hard to believe but this application supports 25+ payment gateways. Authorize.net, Ibill, Linkpoint, Blueway and many others are all in the listed of supported gateways with batch processing ability.

4. Automation

Agilebill includes full billing automation with tasks like invoice creation and auto charge on supported gateways. Account operations like creation, suspension, termination are automated. It even cleans up databases, temporary files and fine tunes itself for optional performance.

5. Maintenance and Upgradeability

The script is well capable of maintaining itself with features like db cleanup and backup features.  It is PHP-MySQL like the others and easy to maintain. Upgrades are easy via its web interface for the modules. Just select/check and update. You won’t even loose your customizations as well. It surely makes it look easy from its web interface. I did not get much info of full upgrades of Agilebill but I still think there is a wizard for it too.

6. Extra features

I can write almost another article on the extra features Agilebill provides. I’ll try to be short to include it in this article. Agilebill can take care of the following billable services:

    * Digital goods & content billing
    * Hosting & domain billing
    * Forum & CMS access billing
    * ISP/WISP billing
    * VoIP billing
    * General online billing
    * General online account management

You should have got an idea of the extra features it is going to have to support all that by now. I won’t go that deep in this article about those features. In addition to those standard features include themes support, affiliate management, newsletter management, IP blocks, FAQs , ability to add static pages etc.

Conclusion

The basic function of any billing application is to manage accurate and faultless billing. Most of these applications do that perfectly. Personal opinions about these applications might change based on previous experiences with it. But for new users looking to have a billing system for themselves, I hope this article gives you insight on some of the best applications around.

 

The above is the article published at hostingtech.com couple year back. The actual link is http://www.hostingtech.com/?m=show&id=1109